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LANSING LITERARY
URGES JEWS GUIDE
CONTEST
IS
WON
BY
MARK
CONFIRMATION
ANCIENT HERITAGE
(Continued from Page 1)
M. A. C. JEWISH BOY
FOR OWN BENEFIT
while Bernice Solomon gave the chin-
H. E. Segelin Awarded Prise for
ing prayer.
Essay on "Tennyson and Evo-
The Temple Choir, assisted by Mr.
lution."
should come this other interest which
Edmund Lichtenstein, violinist, and
upposed
to be ready to serve?
s
po
we are
LANSING.—The winners of the Mrs. Elsa Ruegger Lichtenstein, 'eel-
From any other state? If so, we
would not have sought allegiance annual Lawson literary contest which list, rendered a beautiful musical
that in recent years closed the last of April have been an-
program.
Solos Mrs.
by Miss
Yemeni.
Rohrer,
contralto;
Charles
Wel-
.
here.
.
there has been, even amongst those nounced.
The
first
prize
of
$25
was
awarded
ker,
and
u
duet
by
11
r.
se
1..
whose education and position should
have kept them scornfully above to II. E. Segelin for an essay entitled Becker and Mr. William Howland at-
pave
delightful
intermissions.
and race-hatred, a resat- , .Tennyson and Evolution." The sec- forded
"Judaism's
Three
Demands," an in-
to
sion from the old high standard of I and prize was won by B. V. Halstead
I
for
an
essay
entitled
"The
American
spiring
sermon
addressee!
fair play and broad-minded tolerance.
the class of confirmants, directgi
was lyven
,
• loss, however, not ours.
•
by
Rabbi
Leo
M.
h
ranklin.
Tha
We have proved in the past that we
"In this hour, my deur boys and
possess a strength of character which
girls, the command comes to you to
the politician neither owns nor un-
be thrice holy," Dr. Franklin de-
derstands. Why should we bother
clared.
about the accusations of such men,.
"There are those who, asked where-
who are not even worthy of the tra-
in the tent of righteousness lies,
ditions which they have received from •
would answer, 'in doing righteous-,
ness.' And yet in this hour, an hour
their fathers?
the most supreme and sacred in your
Denser from Within.
young lives, I would stress this
"Indeed, I am not sure that we
thought. While your doing righteous-
shall not benefit by making enemies
ness is a part of righteousness, it is
' I of this kind. As I have told you, our
the least part. Because it is very
danger comes from within. Nothing
much easier and very much simpler
can turn the wheel of time back-
to do the things that all men can see
wards, and this present generation
than to do them out of pure and up-
has gone too far in license and selfish-
right holiness.
ness to be brought back by persua-
"Greater than to do right is to will
sion to the path of self-sacrifice. Per-
the thing that is right, to aspire to
secution might bring them back. I
that which is right and good and
do not wish it—but it makes us real-
pure. And yet there is a higher step
ize our destiny when we are driven in
even than desire and aspiration and
upon ourselves and see how little we
striving to do right. It is to be holy,
can rely upon professions of friend-
to be right, to be clean throughout
ship when the times are unfavorable.'
life.
We live on this earth by God's provi-I
"To Will the Right."
dence alone. The Galuth is not a'
(Continued from Page 1)
"To do right in the sight of God
mere freak of nature, as our young
and man is sometimes difficult. There
people will find out very soon if they
are all sorts of temptations that stand
are not careful. And then perhaps
in our way to lure us from the path
they also will seek to become those
of righteousness. We are told that
who tend the lamp and keep its light
H. E. SEGELIN.
sin lieth at the door and unto us is
shining in the time of darkness.
ideal." The judges selected for this its desire but we must be holy. There.
"Liberal
Jud•ism."
A l - •
were Prof. Milton Simn • so !' are those who through strength of
"I am sometimes asked whether I contest
i
P rof. S. F. character are able to put emp
do not think that what is called Lib- of Kalamazoo College,
ich of the University of Michi- behind them, but some there are who
ill help to bridge the Giner
.
eral Judaism
w ourselves and our Kan, d an
things that are good, but they do
gulf
between
Thomas M. Johnson of Gen- do ern
them grudgingly. They do them
neighbors. On the contrary, I re- eva, New York, correspondent for the. ..
it as the first and nearest step New York Times and a contributor to sometimes even unwillingly. They do
sintegration, and this the Outlook. This contest was es- them sometimes with a mental reserv-
gard
to compl ete
from di the religious but from tablished by a friend and classmate ation.
„ There. are those who do the things
George E.
not only
Wh at is as a memoria l to
the general point of view.
Lawson that men call good, just to win the
What '82, who died F ebruary 15, 1916.
this easy way of being a Jew?
Mr. Segelin is a Junior in the applause and the flattery of those
does it mean? In times of ease, you
do not need its consolation; when Science. department of the College, w o look upon them. I know of
y that their
h who give charity onl
comes, nothing is there. It and is very prominent in the religious ple
trouble
comes,
is
not for
the Jews to seek a religious and educational activities of the Jew- names may be written large because
of
their
gifts.
They
do
good but
assimilation with those who have fol. ash community in Lnasing. While a
lowed the teaching of our great re- student he nevertheless finds time to they do not do it in the way that
ligious leaders, the men from whom teach and direct a Sunday School of makes for righteousness because back
not only the Christian religion 40 children in Lansing, which has
motive.
If we
wish
be a holy
we
sprang, but the Stoic code, the civiliz- proved highly successful. of their
good
there
is to
only
selfish
Mr. Segelin is a graduate of the must put the thought of self behind
ing genius of Ilelenism, and the great
us,
and
that
which
we
do
we
must
do
moral strength which made Rome Baron De Hirsch Agricultural School;
powerful in the past and still a power while he was there he edited the for virtue's sake.
"We must wish to be right. We
today wherever her law lives in the school paper, the "Record."
must wish to be holy and that wish
customs of modern nations. We have
ni the last analysis means that we ,
our message yet. We do not need
must seek to realize the greatest and
a common platform to deliver it, for
noblest possibilities of our own lives.
all nations do not stand on the same
Urges Useful Service.
spiritual level. It is the Jewish ideal
you who are bright and clever;
a
which has always sought to put
the men
of things
the earth
been
endowed
by
your
I
bridle
upon the
of earth, are
and not ready — you, who have Maker
with
unusual gifts,
must
real-
Present Fine Program at Shaarey M e that such gifts are only trusts.
shown
Zedek
on
Occasion
of
Annual
Na.
We
must
not
let
our
interests
center
for the bridle. The war has
tional Young Judaea Day.
how strong and vital still is every in-
in ourselves. We must convert these
stinct of barbarism among the na-
eve _ gifts into means of useful service:
lions. How, then, should we, whose,
"Power must be used not to crush
Detroit Young Judaea Monday
pride
has always
been that we
were
apart it from
the barbarians,
find
any- ning scored another triumph with those who are weaker, but it must
be
used to lift up those who are
thing to gain from the sacrifice or the entertainment presented at the
Shaarey Zek
on te h occasion of weaker, if possible, to our own level.
ed
i
a Day, aimed And those best endowed must always
curtailmnt of what we contr
' National Young Judae
the world's spiritual progress? bute to , as a day of propaganda for Young be unusually considerate of those who
Rejects the Rich.
Judaea among the parents and are less endowed. No man lives unto
e Rive to
. •
of Young Judaea.
ea alone,
I b e , h IT e
himself
ir
hold fast to the r e I , mends
"We most
b es t .
Three very interesting plays, two tiie other,
desire, th
must
that has been reserved for us.
recitations
Jew dialogues,
numerous
"Be the thing you aspire. Let vir-
I am asked whether an English
featur: lure become a part of your being-
dances
and
musical
selections
interest-
should take part in public life, I give
So live that that which is unclean in
ification. If ed the program. The most
my answer with a q
ANS a thought, in word, in act, shall be
his services are required, then let him ing number on the program
P g and Sammy hateful to your spirit.
be. But if he seeks to make public dialogue "The Professor
.•
" acted by Sam Firestone
"Let every woman be to you as
Judaism his chief . i1 iintzes,
life at the cost of
Abe Torgow of the Knights of Ju- your two mother, your own si ster.
aim, he will fail and fall. They ta lk
Let
every boy and man be to you as
about our rich men; but I would dsea.
The three plays presented were your own brother. Let nothing un
make them a present of all our rich
in ollatikvah," "The Broomstick Bri- clean soil your hands and dim the
men, for it is only a generation
advance. In 30 years they will be gade"
and "Day Off the Exile." glory of your souls."
,
liat ik vu ho was presented by a group '
Rabbi Hershman'• Sermon.
lost to us; and we shall have gained
members of the Daughters of the
nothing from them, except the legend of
- ew
that 'the Jews are rich, whilest in White and Blue. The cast consisted In his
"The y Old
N I
, i address,
morn-
delive'red Monday
fact we are the most poverty-stricken of Anna Sloniovitz as Ilatikvah, Lany . Covenant,"
nation in the world. To us pinto-, Drapkin, Lottie Davidov and Emma , ing before a large congregation at I
, the Shaarey Zedek, Rabbi A. M.
ev i,.
cracy is a meaningless term, for we L
Hershman declared that "the old that
,
tho give no respect to wealth, even
good is better than the new that
Gi v e Paleatine Play. ,
Jews
is
se of us who most enjoy it. In-
"The Broomstick Brigade," a com. promises to be good."
deed, democracy is a kind of fault
Rabbi Ilershman declared that he
with us. We recognize one aristoc-, is play in two acts, was presented
ns opposed to an American Judaism
racy alone, the aristocracy of Intel- , by a cast composed of members of " stu
th Zion , M accabees of Jud-
st as he was opposed to a Russian
lect. That is why the Shammas has the Tikvas e Bar K ex•hba Judaeans . '. j Judaism. Judaism, he said, should be
and
,
always been as good as the Parnass. , This play had its setting in Pales- broad enough to appeal to all Jews
If modern Jews lose this conception I , aea
tine a and dealt with the strike of the the world over. What Rabbi Bergh-
of aristocracy, they lose everything, school children in Palestine in 1914 , , man advocated was an American Is-
and they will only maintain it by a!
return to the old reverence for piety' against the study of German as op-
el.
Urges Hebrew Study.
and respect for the laws laid down posed to Ilebrew. Anna Bookstein, ra
Teaching Jewish fundamentals to
1 Fannie Blondy, Rose Goldfaden, Mar-
,
the
young
from their very infancy .
to "I
guide
us."
know we are accused of ostenta-, garet Lefton and Clara Labret of San
the
was particularly advocated by Rabbi
[ion, a fault which is common to all Tikvas Zion; Arthur Wendell,
Ilershman. He declared that the Jew-
oppressed nations that wish to make Silverstein and Simon Pomeranz
ish ritual services must in the main
sure of themselves and gain the race of the Maccabees of Judaea and Ab-
conducted in Hebrew, and there-,
ognition of the world; of separatism, ie Goldstein of the liar Kochba play.
Jo- , be
fore urged that the young be taught
which is characteristic of small na- &leans made up the cast of this
"Day Off the Exile," a Shabuoth I theyrew
leb from their very youth
and the so
tionalities, as you see in the Scotch-
will be able to understand
man when he gees abroad. We are play, was acted by a cast composedl ,
of
members
of
the
Young
Judaea
pi I
rayers.
p
aea
even accused of beingprejudiced Dramatic
, Young Jud
I Concerning the exclusion of He-
and the D efenders of ?the' brew from services in reform tern-
against the nations round about . But cart Club Club
•
hollowing we re
that is a false accuse
White and Blue.
plea, Rabbi Hershman said it was due
proud that God has chosen us for a the players: Anna Aronson, Eva Le- knot to the reform movement but to
So- the fact that Hebrew had fallen into
definite purpose. But Ile has chosen vine, Dorothy Rabinowitz,
every nation for some purpose. No; ble, Hyman Cohen, Sam Blondy, Mor- misuse. The thing to do now, in or-
as
the real prejudice is against us,
ris Krause, Philip Silverstein, Rebec- der to restore Hebrew to the ritual,
long as we are amphibians. We must ca Silver, Yetta Dworkin, Lola Wein- said Rabbi Hershman, is to place
E ve. • M arcus
frankly recognize that we cannot en- berg, Anna
Anna Maxman,
brew back into popular use and then
joy the blessings of this world and and Gertrude Lipniek, llyman Co-' it will be restored to the service.
et
l
the joy of the world to come.
hen, as the "Devil" was the star of
Rabbi Hersman Sunday morning
stick to our own life that we have this play.
spoke on the topic "First Fruits" to
led in the past, or let us come back
one of the largest crowds that ever
Sinai
Dialogue.
to the past. Our fetters are not fet-
Rose Bloody and Nettie Clasky of packed the Shaarey Zedek.
ters at all; they are more like the
rails on which the train of life is to the B'Nos Yisroel appeared in a dia-
logue,
"At the Mount of Sinai,"
run if its journey is to be accom-
Lipshitz appeared in the
plished as it was intended. Let our Anna
"Dance
of
Hope," which was accom-
young people reflect that by impos-
—
ing the limitations of Jewish sacrifice panied by the singing of "Eli, Eli," I
by Diana Gorelick. Both are mem- LONDON—A dispatch receivedd
upon themselves, they not only se-
hers
of
the
Glories
of
Zion.
A
num-
here
from
Johannesburg,
Sou
cure their own benefit, but the bene-
ber of fine selections were given by rice, says a strong force of police,
fit of others. Let them reflect whether
armed with machine guns, is concen-
contempt is not the worst of all, and the Young Judaea Orchestra.
,
Recitations were given by Mollie trating in the Queesntown district
realize that they will be despised in-
Cohen, in Hebrew, and Ida Weiner, where a large number of blacks, as-
stead of being hated if they cease to
of the Roses of Zion; Anna Levine,' serting that they belong to one of the
be Jews in the true sense. And let
of the Glories of Zion, and Mollie lost tribes of Israel, have seized large
them remember furthermore that
of
Price of the Forget-Me-Nots of Zion. estates and committed a number
to
there are others only too anxious it
Samuel Heyman, President of the crimes against the European popula- :
up
our
heritage
and
bear
take
Young Judaea Council of Detroit, tion.
away."
These blacks, the dis patch asserts,
acted as chairman and outlined th e
- declare that they are w aiting for a
of Young Judaea and the pur y
to Pal estine , a nd ,
DETROIT LODGE, No. 55, K. OF P. need
poses of the organization. Mr. He- divine call to return activ
ities are in
11 a ealed f or g reate r that their present
interest
in
Young
Judaea
by
the
par-
preparation
for
this.
Will members please notify theyma aspic
it
Keeper of Records and Seals o f th e
ents of Young
new addresses as he isdesirous
Distribute Prises.
making a new mailing list and for
In the course of the evening, prizes
that purpose, it is necessary to have
were distributed to seven of Detroit's1
WARSAW.—In answer to an in-
correct addreases of all members.
Young Judaeans for the best essays, terpellation by the Jewish deputies in
Nathan S. Shellfish,
Keeper of Record and Seals, written by them in a recent essay : the Seim who demanded that the na-
Knights of Pythias Castle, contest. Hyman Cohen of the Defend- turalization law be put into effect in
3153 Casiavenue. ers of the White and Blue, won the accordance with the Treaty of Ver-
en-
prize for the best essay in the sthe sailles, Skolski, Minister of the In-
ior division, Mary Markofsky, of
trior, repeated the well-known inter -
Tikvas Zion, Mary Friedenberg
pretation of "domicile" as meaning
the Forget-me-nots of Zion, and Max "permanent residence." Jewish depu-
Wein of the Knights of Judaea were ties thereupon questioned the Prime
The Tau Sigma Delta Sorroity will awarded prizes for the best essays
of Foreign Af-
bold its first open air meeting Tues- and short stories in the intermediate Minister and Minister
fairs. The latter voiced his agree-
day, June 21, at 6:30 P. M., on the division; Anna Backe, Ida Weiner,
ment, giving a definition which arbi-
Belle Isle Boat. The business of the of the Roses of Zion and Mamie Al.
trarily disregards the clauses in the
sorority will be held on the boat and len of the B'Nos Yisroel were award- ,
Versailles Treaty on the naturalize.
the remainder of the evening spent ed , prizes for beat essays in the jun-
I tion of minority.
on the island. All members are ur-
ior
division.
ged to attend.
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